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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PS4 Update 1.04 is out!
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
Well, the XP glitch has supposedly been fixed too. But yeah, it does seem like for every thing they fix they break something else.
Wind's Howling
Member
Funnily enough people forget that this patch was not meant to improve the performance but to fix certain quest and gameplay bugs.
They said they are looking into those issues which should mean a stand alone patch for the PS4 in the upcoming future.
funkystudent
Member
Returned to white orchard for a bit and was surprised how much smoother that area was to the rest of the game.
PsihoPerihelion
Member
I reinstalled the game without 1.04 patch and it took 10 seconds to load after the first cutscene. Quite an improvement, lol.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
That would be fine if the performance wasn't getting worse with each patch.
I wish I could avoid it, the pop in and lag mess that area up so bad.
It shouldn't get worse tho.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Played for about 3 hours tonight (pc patch 1.05) and I could finally read about 90% of the text that was awesome, really wish I could make it even better but at least I can read most of it now.
Can't say anything about the preference because I never had problems with it (1080p/60/ultra).
Can't say anything about the preference because I never had problems with it (1080p/60/ultra).
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I'm actually pretty angry with CDPR right now, or at least really disappointed. I feel like they're ruining what should have been the best gaming experience of the year (possibly one of the best ever) with their clearly rushed release and shoddy testing & QA work. Yeah, entitled gamer and all that... But I did pay ~72 USD (that's what a new game costs in Sweden) for this game, and I do expect it to function properly. As it is right now, I can't fully enjoy this experience, and that really sucks because I know how great it is underneath the jank and brokenness. I don't want to get angry when playing this game, I want to love every minute of it. So I'm thinking I should maybe just not play it for a while. Let them get a few more patches out first.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
That is what I am doing. I am just trying to play something else until another patch or two releases.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Well, no, that's been happening all along. What's new is that the damn main menu music stutters.
Yeah I also noticed that. Also, this game makes my ps4 work it's ass off. Did cd projekt fuck up the optimization or something?
No, you're right. The game should perform reasonably at launch. It's an amazing game which gets spoiled by things that shouldn't be there. Looks like people will have to wait and hope they'll fix it.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I don't think it's very optimized at all. I mean, what they've done is very impressive in so many ways, but it's clear that they haven't done everything they could have to get everything out of each platform. A game shouldn't go from locked 30 fps to 20 fps just because a few torches appear on screen. That just screams unoptimized multi-platform code. Which I can understand in a way, because this is the first time they've ever released a game on more than one platform at once (and they've never made a PS game before), in addition to this being by far the largest game they've ever made. But still, this game feels rushed, released before it should have been. They delayed it once, guess they felt they couldn't delay it again, so they took the "good enough, let's fix it later" approach.
Me to
This makes me nervous for fallout 4 for some reason. WELP, THIS SUCKS A FAT ONE GUYS.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Don't worry, Bethesda are masters of multiplatform optimization... lol.
Lol
Super Stardust
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Ps3 skyrim still gives me nightmares lol
wookieofdoom
Member
Is the performance supposed to be better on the xbox one? The frame rate on the ps4 is starting to kill me
Yes. But the resolution is 900p
I'm really thinking of trading my ps4 version in for an xb1 copy now. Waited for this patch and it's still performing bad in novigrad and the bog
wookieofdoom
Member
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if they just dropped the resolution to 900p if meant a better performance.
Even in daytime?
Aceofspades
Banned
it seems like there is a bug that needs to be ironed out on the swamps area on PS4 since the game gets locked at 20fps even when there is no actions. its kinda of relieve to be honest because it appears that PS4 GPU is not stressed and is more than capable to run this area better.
EDIT: X1 is not that much better in he same area hovering around 25fps.
This. No need to have 1080p just to have 1080p. If it can't run proper at that resolution, then they need to take it down a notch.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
It seems like entire textures like just dropping from the game now. Half of Novigrad just vanished on me and took a good 20 seconds to come back.
Annnnd to top it off I get a fatal error as I type it.
EDIT: Wtf?! After fatal error game carried on as usual?!
Annnnd to top it off I get a fatal error as I type it.
EDIT: Wtf?! After fatal error game carried on as usual?!
Number one reason I'm gaming on the Xbox one for this game. Performance more than makes up for minor screen blur. Game is still very beautiful.
wookieofdoom
Member
Does the xbone version hold 30fps even in the bog?
IAmRandom31
Banned
Woops wrong thread
Performance sucks! Ahem
Performance sucks! Ahem
R_thanatos
Member
Since 1.04 i've seen :
-Part of NPC bodies that were fully loaded (missing legs and/or torso )
-Several furnitures that didn't load at all ( resulting in many candles floating in mid-air )
-Several late textures loads ( horrible reminder of the old unreal engine days )
But the game is smoother in many areas (towns) , however outside of the towns you can see where they gained some power , the lightning is now dull to anything that is outside a 15 metter radius around geralt , and the flames look quite dull ?? ( less impressive ) at night.
The night framerate in town didn't bother me before ( nor the swamps areas ) but those optimisations are now breaking the visual immersion for me. i DO NO WANT.
-Part of NPC bodies that were fully loaded (missing legs and/or torso )
-Several furnitures that didn't load at all ( resulting in many candles floating in mid-air )
-Several late textures loads ( horrible reminder of the old unreal engine days )
But the game is smoother in many areas (towns) , however outside of the towns you can see where they gained some power , the lightning is now dull to anything that is outside a 15 metter radius around geralt , and the flames look quite dull ?? ( less impressive ) at night.
The night framerate in town didn't bother me before ( nor the swamps areas ) but those optimisations are now breaking the visual immersion for me. i DO NO WANT.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
No, but it does a bit better.
EmptySpace
Banned
hopefully most things are ironed out once i buy witcher 3 whichever month of the year it will be.
ah, one of the perks of buying a game late. cheaper, and has all the patches necessary for a better experience.
then again i could just wait for the inevitable goty version which might contain the 40-dollar expansion packs. hmmm...decisions.
ah, one of the perks of buying a game late. cheaper, and has all the patches necessary for a better experience.
then again i could just wait for the inevitable goty version which might contain the 40-dollar expansion packs. hmmm...decisions.
I really feel for you that are having huge issues with performance. I've been lucky so far. Hopefully CDPR gets it patched up for everyone. Now that the XP glitch is fixed the game runs better for me and is more polished than pretty much any last gen open world game.
wookieofdoom
Member
Man, I just did the Tower of Mice quest line and it ran like a slide show in there. Combined with the fact the area takes place in a bog, it was night and the game decided it would be rad to have a big storm roll in. Couple that with the fact I had to use a object that illuminated the dark rooms in a eerie color, the frame rate tanked. Took me right out of what should have been a very cool quest.
OuterLimits
Member
My apologies if this has been answered already, but have they revealed their plans for expansions or larger DLC? While I'm excited for additional content, I'm concerned this could end up like Fallout 3.
Fallout 3 became much worse performance wise after the DLC, especially on PS3. The game of the year version was atrocious.
I like the game, but the glitches and poor frame rate certainly are frustrating. Each patch fixes some problems while creating new ones. Obviously the game will always have some issues, but hopefully they will be minor and the end product will be much better than it is now.
Fallout 3 became much worse performance wise after the DLC, especially on PS3. The game of the year version was atrocious.
I like the game, but the glitches and poor frame rate certainly are frustrating. Each patch fixes some problems while creating new ones. Obviously the game will always have some issues, but hopefully they will be minor and the end product will be much better than it is now.
RedAssedApe
Banned
all that trouble for a few fps in specific areas? someone else in one of the previous threads did this too and they immediately regretted it.
They've announced 2 larger dlcs/expansions that are supposed to provide 10 and 20 hours of content. The first adds content to oxenfurt and I assume unlocks the second island that we can't access. The second adds a new area.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/355880/?snr=1_5_9__405
I'm wondering if with these large dlc plans if they plan on making an enhanced edition like the first two.
What are people playing this game on that they can't read the text? Are the TVs too big or too small? I think the text and HUD are a little too big already.
Novigrad is just awful in my game. Just running somewhere in the city will result in smeared unloaded textures on walls and the ground, people walking around with invisible body parts, and up to 10 seconds of waiting for NPCs to become interactive at all. Is this universal or is my replaced HDD slowing things down? It's so bad at times I have a hard time believing it would have passed QA like that.
Novigrad is just awful in my game. Just running somewhere in the city will result in smeared unloaded textures on walls and the ground, people walking around with invisible body parts, and up to 10 seconds of waiting for NPCs to become interactive at all. Is this universal or is my replaced HDD slowing things down? It's so bad at times I have a hard time believing it would have passed QA like that.
I think it has to be a hard drive issue. I have a SSHD in my console and barely see any pop in outside of a couple NPCs and have never seen any unloaded textures.
Yeah, same here (I've finished the game) and it sucks that there's apparently so much variation in what people are experiencing.
Even my experience in Novigrad is in direct contrast to some of the last few posts. Runs smoother than ever for me after patch with no strange pop-in. I really hope CDPR can get this sorted for those with problems.
Augemitbutter
Member
i never had missing body parts in my game. had some texture loading in cutscenes. it's gone now with the latest patch.
Thanks for this. Finally got a frame rate test of the swamps. Judging from the video, it really doesn't look like typical frame rate drops. Hopefully CDP can remove the double buffering soon.
What?? Lucky?? I dont know what drug you are on but it is imposible that your game runs at a higher framerate than everyone else
kriskrosbbk
Member
Ouch.Bought the game few days ago and still fooling around WO.Your comment makes me stay with the peasants a bit more.
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